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SubjectRe: [PATCH v8 09/10] vduse: Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace
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在 2021/6/29 上午11:56, Yongji Xie 写道:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 11:29 AM Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> 在 2021/6/29 上午10:26, Yongji Xie 写道:
>>> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 12:40 PM Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> 在 2021/6/25 下午12:19, Yongji Xie 写道:
>>>>>> 2b) for set_status(): simply relay the message to userspace, reply is no
>>>>>> needed. Userspace will use a command to update the status when the
>>>>>> datapath is stop. The the status could be fetched via get_stats().
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2b looks more spec complaint.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Looks good to me. And I think we can use the reply of the message to
>>>>> update the status instead of introducing a new command.
>>>>>
>>>> Just notice this part in virtio_finalize_features():
>>>>
>>>> virtio_add_status(dev, VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_FEATURES_OK);
>>>> status = dev->config->get_status(dev);
>>>> if (!(status & VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_FEATURES_OK)) {
>>>>
>>>> So we no reply doesn't work for FEATURES_OK.
>>>>
>>>> So my understanding is:
>>>>
>>>> 1) We must not use noreply for set_status()
>>>> 2) We can use noreply for get_status(), but it requires a new ioctl to
>>>> update the status.
>>>>
>>>> So it looks to me we need synchronize for both get_status() and
>>>> set_status().
>>>>
>>> We should not send messages to userspace in the FEATURES_OK case. So
>>> the synchronization is not necessary.
>>
>> As discussed previously, there could be a device that mandates some
>> features (VIRTIO_F_RING_PACKED). So it can choose to not accept
>> FEATURES_OK is packed virtqueue is not negotiated.
>>
>> In this case we need to relay the message to userspace.
>>
> OK, I see. If so, I prefer to only use noreply for set_status(). We do
> not set the status bit if the message is failed. In this way, we don't
> need to change lots of virtio core codes to handle the failure of
> set_status()/get_status().


It should work.

Thanks


>
> Thanks,
> Yongji
>

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